Driving wheel



Jan. 24, 1928.

DORSAY MCC. WHITE DRIVING WHEEL Filed Sept. 21, 1925 II/Ifl/II/IIII/IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMII/lm7IIIIIIIIIMIIO- INVENTOR DORSAY M CALL WHITE ATTORNEY major part of the .wheel. Another featur'e permanently fastened on the rin 40' v The wheel shown is driven by a live axle seat on and be centered bythe outer edge of so being demountably secured bolts 24:.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DOBSA Y MGCALL WHITE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB TO-MO'IOB INDUSTRIES,

INC, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 01' ILLINOIE.

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I Application filed September 21, 1925. Serial No. 57,597.

This invention relates to wheels, and is il- On the brake drum is mounted an annular lustrated as embodied in a rear disk wheel rim-carrying part or ring 26, shown channeli'or an automobile driven by a three-quarter shaped in cross-section and with its inner floating axle. flange secured to. the braking flange of the 5 An object of the invention is to arrange drum by rivets 28 which also serve to hold a the parts so that the brake drum and the suitable metal liner. 30. Ring 26 is flared rim are both bisected by the axle bearing outwardly, with its outer flange terminating which carries the load, especially in a 0011- at the plane of bearing 16, so that this plane struction in which the brake drumforms'the' substantiallybisects rim 32 demountably o1 relates to forming. the wheel or drum with While one illustrative embo 'ment has a shoulder to be seated and piloted on the been described in detail, it is-not my intendriving flange of the drive axle. tion to limit the scope of the invention to These and other features of the invention that particular embodiment, or otherwise, 15 will be apparent from the following descripthan by the terms of the appended claims.

tion of one illustrative embodiment'shown Iclaim: Y in the accompanying drawing, in which: 1.' A vehicle having, in combination, a live The figure is a horizontal section through axle having an out-turned flange at its outer one rear wheel and associated parts. end, and a disk wheel having a shoulder to 10, shown as a tube swaged down at one end said flange and secured to said flange. to receive one side gear 12 of the difi'eren- 2. A vehicle having, in combination, a tutial, and supported near its end in the axle bular live axle expanded at its end to form housing 14L by an anti-friction bearing 16. a driving flange, and a disk wheel piloted 2 The outer end of the tube is expanded to on and secured to said flange. 8d form a driving flange .18, the tube being In testimony whereof I have hereunto closed if desired by a Welch plug 20.- On signed my name. i this flange is piloted a shoulder formed by rabbeting out a brake drum 22, the drum 7 v I DORSAY MCCALL i 

